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27 Apr 2006, 3:08 pm
[JURIST] American-educated Saudi and alleged al Qaeda suspect Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi [Wikipedia profile] denied before a pre-trial military commission hearing at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] Thursday that he was guilty of war crimes [DOD charge sheet, PDF], but said he was "willing to pay the price" - possibly decades in jail - for admittedly fighting against the United States. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 7:47 am
[JURIST] Ali Abd al-Aziz [BBC profile], one of 14 "high value" Guantanamo Bay detainees and the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile], has denied allegations that he transferred funds to the 9/11 hijackers and has insisted he had no prior knowledge that his uncle was planning attacks on the US, according to a Pentagon transcript [PDF text] from a Combatant Status Review [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 4:33 am
[JURIST] The father of a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused CIA officials of torturing his son - Pakistani terror suspect Majid Khan [GlobalSecurity profile] - after arresting him in Pakistan in March 2003, according to an affidavit [PDF text; press release] released Monday. [read post]
17 May 2020, 7:42 pm
“Guantanamo Bay Detainee’s Due Process Habeas Claim Rejected”: Maya Earls of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. [read post]
12 May 2011, 6:22 am
"Guantanamo Bay detainees' family members may be allowed to visit": This article appears today in The Washington Post. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 7:19 pm
., president of the American Bar Association, spoke today at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco about preserving the integrity of the American legal system after Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
23 Oct 2016, 10:33 am
Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a Syrian former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detainee, on Saturday ended his 68-day hunger strike. [read post]
18 Aug 2012, 9:41 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] held a hearing Friday regarding a challenge to new restrictions on lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detainees who have had their habeas corpus challenges denied or dismissed. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 9:24 am
[JURIST] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] transferred several high-profile prisoners to Guantanamo Bay to await trial in 2003, only to transfer them back into the CIA's network of secret prisons [JURIST news archives] so they would not be entitled to lawyers and access to US courts, the Associated Press reported [text] Friday. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 7:07 am
[JURIST] The military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] may have to remain open until 2011 to allow an Illinois prison time to prepare for the arrival of the detainees, according to Wednesday reports [AP report]. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 6:16 am
[JURIST] Former British Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Tarek Dergoul [History Commons profile] is suing the UK's MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) [official websites] intelligence services over complicity with Dergoul's alleged torture, according to a Wednesday report [text] in the Guardian. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 11:34 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Monday denied a defense motion for mistrial in the trial of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 8:13 am
[JURIST] A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday denied [opinion, PDF] the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Abdul Razak Ali. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 6:42 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Tuesday affirmed [opinion, PDF] the dismissal of wrongful death claims by the families of two former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detainees, Yasser Al-Zahrani of Saudi Arabia and Salah Al-Salami of Yemen, who committed suicide while in detention in 2006. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 2:39 pm
The decision overturns the district court's earlier finding in favor of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Djamel Ameziane [advocacy materials], who claims to have been subjected to torture [AP report] and is seeking release. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 8:16 am
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough [official profile] told [Fox News report] Fox News Sunday that President Barack Obama [official profile] intends to fulfill his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before leaving office. [read post]
9 Jun 2006, 3:17 am
[JURIST] The US military has denied allegations of Guantanamo Bay soldiers desecrating copies of the Koran [JURIST report] during a May clash between prisoners and guards [JURIST report] after four prisoners attempted suicide. [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 6:27 am
Morris Davis [JURIST news archive], the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] may not seek money damages from his former supervisor at the Library of Congress (LOC) [official website] for termination of his employment due to op-ed articles he wrote. [read post]
28 May 2011, 1:34 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday affirmed [opinion, PDF] a lower court's decision confirming that Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Musa'ab Omar al-Madhwani is lawfully detained for being part of al Qaeda. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 6:01 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] stated Thursday that he intends to continue his efforts to close Guantanamo Bay prison, despite likely push back from Congress after the Paris attacks [JURIST report]. [read post]
